Amusement device for bathers.



R. B. FAGEOL.

AMUSEMENT'DEVICE FOR'BATHERS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG 11. 1915.

l 1 90 x43. Patented July 11, 1916.

WIT/V598 ROLLIE B. FAGEOL, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

AMUSEMENT.DEVICE FOB BATHERS.

Application filed August 17, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROLLIE B. F AGEOL, acitizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county ofAlameda and State of California, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Amusement Devices for Bathers, of which the following isa specification.

The present invention relates to an amuseporting frame attached to thebuoyant support, whereby the user may sit on said supporting frame orlie on the same and be sup ported on the surface of the water.

With the above mentioned and other ob jects in view, the inventionconsists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafterdescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out inthe claim hereto appended; it being understood that various changes inthe form, proportion, size and minor details of construction within thescope of the claim may be resorted to without departing from the spiritor sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

To more fully comprehend the invention, reference is directed to theaccompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view in plan of anembodiment of my invention, disclosing the buoyant support and the bodysupporting frame in the center thereof. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectionalview taken on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view in detail of a portionof the buoyant support, disclosing the ridges there on caused by thebending thereof into circular form.

Referring more particularly to the several views of the drawings,wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts,1 isa suitable buoyant supporting frame, preferably tubular in crosssection,

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented July fl, 1916'.

Serial No. 45,890.

providing the air containing chamber 1, and circular in form, and thesame is approximately six feet in diameter, so that a person lyingdiametrically across the same will be enabled to rest their head on oneside and their feet directly opposite. The buoyant support is preferablyof metal suitably coated and is either stamped or bent by any well knownprocess into any suitable shape.

Positioned in the open center 2 of the buoyant support 1 is a suitablebody supporting frame 3, consisting preferably of the intersectingmembers or straps 4: detachably secured at their opposite ends, as at 5,around the buoyant support. A central member or rest 6 is secured to thesupporting frame members or straps 4 at their intersection, and thesameis retained in position on the straps, preferably by the stitching 7which extends longitudinally of the side edges of the straps.

It is to be understood that any suitable body supporting frame may beemployed, either to completely close the open center of the buoyantsupporting frame, or one which partly closes the same, as in thedrawing; and it is desirable that the edges of said supportingframe or aportion thereof be se cured in any suitable manner to the buoyantsupport.

The device is preferably coated with a suitable waterproof paint whichwill preserve the same.

It is to be understood that the buoyant supporting frame may be made inany suitable configuration, either in plan or cross section, and eitherwith an air chamber or of a material capable of floating, the formillustrated enabling the device to be set on edge and rolled on thebeach from place to place, as desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A device of theclass described, comprising a rigid annular frame providing a buoyantsupport, a body supporting frame within the opening in said annularsupport and comprising flexible intersecting members eX- tending acrosssaid opening, with their ends passing around said supporting frame, anddetachably secured to the main body portion of their respective members,and a flexible In testimony whereof I have signed my seat carried at theintersection of said memname to this specification in the presence ofhers and of a less area than that of theopena subscribing Witness.

v ing in said annular frame, and provided ROLLIE B. FAGEOL. 5 withintersecting channels through which Witness:

said frame members pass. D. B. RICHARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

